TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER POUR
and f'Za sl.obodni stih". Crnjanski emphasises the
expressive power of l.ansuase. and of literarv form.
His
novels refl.ect the association between form and ideas.
This connection is reflected in his coinins of the term
sumatraism which is both a literarv reference to the
first line of Pandurovi6's poem "Svetkovina" ("Silli smo
s uma u sjajan dan"). and to a wav of thinkins and
perceivins which is intuitive and irrational. Throush
his manipul.ation of time Crnjanski creates the effects
of particular literarv senres in his novels.
Rjepnin's
function as a narrator in Roman 0
Londonu sives the
impression that this is "pri~a
storv which we overhear" 55).
koju oslulkujemo"· ("a
The svnchronic narration
bV characters and from character points of view in the
earl.ier novel.s is here transformed into dramatic
immediacy.
This impression is reinforced bv the stase
motif in the openins parasraph of the novel:
Svi se pisci roman a sla!u. uslavnom. kad
je re~ 0 svetu u kom !ivimo. To jet
ka!u. neka vrsta velike. ~udnovate.
pozornice. na kojoj svaki. neko vreme.
isra svoju ulosu. A zatim silazi sa
scene. da se na njoj vile ne pojavi.
Hikada. - nikosda. Hiti zna zalto je u
tom teatru israo. niti zalto je bal tu
ulosu imao. niti ko mu je tu ulosu
dodelio. a ni sl.edaoci ne znajut posl.e.
kuda je iz tos teatraotilao. (Uvekhal
- vi~e neko u ;lednom vasonu podzemne
!eleznice u Londonu). Pisci ka!u ito.
da smo, samo pri tom sil.asku sa
pozornice •. svi. jednaki. X kraljevi. i
prosjaci (56).
All writers of the novel asree. on the
whol.e.when the world in which we J.ive is
under discussion. Xt is. thev sav.a
2011.